Here's your one-stop-shopping for all your questions about your legal rights. Funeral Ethics Organization, run by Lisa Carlson, co-author of Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death, has generously distilled information from the book into simple tri-fold pamphlets. You'll learn:

How to file all death-related paperwork if you're performing the funeral as a family

How well or how badly your state laws look out for your protection and your money when you buy a prepaid funeral and how to avoid a costly trap

Which state agencies regulate funeral homes and cemeteries and where to file a complaint

Gaps in your state's consumer protection laws you need to know before the funeral purchase